We start with nominations; please nominate here. Any TV series is eligible, whether it's shown in the UK, the USA, Wales, Brazil, whatever. Soaps, documentaries, cooking shows, current shows, shows that were last seen in the seventies. Everything that gets nominated will get entry into the final poll, unless there are more than 200 nominations, in which case some form of triage will take place.

The final poll will be posted during the weekend of 1-2 December 2007. It will be a radio button poll, because otherwise counting the votes would be tedious. Note: this means that in the final voting you'll only get to vote for one series. Voting will close some time during the weekend of 29-30 December 2007.

There is an extra competition to guess which series I think is the best ever. Go on, have a go.

There are a number of newer shows that I was tempted to recommend, but I almost think that to be "best show ever" a show has to have actually finished so you can judge the whole thing. There's at least 2 shows (Heroes and Friday Night Lights) that are only a season old that I think have the potential to be great, but could also be 1 season wonders (*cough*lost*cough*). I added Battlestar because it's almost done and has at least a few years under it's belt.

This is slightly similar to something I tried to do (although I didn't get enough results to make it worth looking at). I was most curious about whether you get different results if you ask people for their top show vs their top 3 and compile the results. Also if people distinguish between "best" and "favourite". It's possible I overthink these things ;0)

Police Squad!, Frasier, Knightmare, King of the Hill, Father Ted, Tommorrow's World, The Crystal Maze, Ultraviolet (Which I remember as being very good but I have yet to watch the DVD's), and Batman : The Animated Series. Red Dwarf was good, before they tried to bring it back, and that was terrible. The first few series of My Hero were cool, before everything became so focussed on Ultronian stuff.

Shortland Street I liked very much, and A Country Practice, but the best actor in Shortland Street was always the spider that wandered into the hospital one week and got everyone in a tizzy.

I like Doctor Who, and I like Robin Hood, but really I know that they're just about watching a personification of Dramatic Causality charge around Hungaria / Cardiff and save the world for no more real reason than it being 1900 on a Saturday, and I could probably watch pretty much anyone doing that and be happy.